Michael Bok ’14 Ph.D., biological sciences, was featured in a July 8th blog post on the science blog io9. The piece focused on a video, filmed by Bok and posted on his website Arthropoda, of a dead Longfin Inshore Squid whose chromatophores were still active. Bok set the piece to Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel. You can watch the video and read other posts by Bok at Arthropoda.
Cape Gazette, the newspaper which covers the Cape Region of Delaware, published an article written by alumnus and practicing orthopedic physician Ed Becker ’01, biological sciences, on June 24th. The article, entitled “Tennis elbow: not just for tennis players,” is something of an ABC for the sporting ailment, ranging over such matters as symptoms, contributing factors, and finally offers a few recommendations to lessen the likelihood of tennis elbow occurring, and possible courses of action if it does. “Always warm up before play,” wrote Becker, “and put all of [the] major joints through a complete range of motion. Lighter racquets… Continue Reading Alumnus Ed Becker ’01, Biological Sciences, in Cape Gazette
The March issue of Birding features the work of Kevin Omland, an associate professor of biology. The author, Paul Hess writes that, Omland and his colleagues, “take an opposite view from several papers that recommend splitting the Common Raven into two species.” The new study demonstrates a need for multiple criteria — not only genetic, but also morphological, behavioral and ecological to judge whether a population deserves full-species status.
Benyam Kinde ’10, biological sciences, is one of 10 students in 2011 to be named a Gilliam Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Kinde, who was UMBC’s 2010 valedictorian and a member of the 18th cohort of the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, is in the Harvard-MIT combined MD-PhD Program. Read more about the award here.
To come up with this year’s list of the city’s top doctors, Baltimore magazine asked 5,500 physicians who they would choose to send their family members to see in each of 86 specialties. The final list includes eight UMBC graduates — several of whom have made the list before — who were recognized by their peers for the quality of care they provide. Biological sciences majors who made the list include Fouad Abbas ’82 (gynecologic oncology), Mary “Tessie” Behrens ’80 (nephrology), Robert Donegan ’87 (hematology/oncology) and Stephen George ’80 (pediatric rheumatology). Michael Lantz ’85, biochemistry and molecular biology, was recognized… Continue Reading Eight UMBC Graduates Make Baltimore List of Top Doctors
